Torney Smith Quotes & Sayings

My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering ... this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe. — Ravi Zacharias

What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem and enumerated all of the dissastisfactions in your life? He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don't like having choices made for you, you should start making your own. — Neal Stephenson

The wind bent to her will. She spun in place, starting for the door. She had to find Aldrik and tell him. — Elise Kova

I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream! — Tove Jansson

The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions. — David Hume

No, please Satan! I don't want to be sex meat!" Kirk screamed. — Mandy De Sandra

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions. — Thomas Keating